The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton

RoJ 135: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write')

Copy, headed A Letter from Artemiza.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

RoJ 286: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')

Copy, headed Satyr on Man.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

RoJ 472: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon ('What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach')

Copy, headed Satyr.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as Satyr. [Timon]. Harold Love, The Text of Timon. A Satyr, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

RoJ 46: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee ('As some brave admiral, in former war')

Copy, headed The Maim'd Drunkard and here beginning As some old Admiral in former war.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

RoJ 511: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's Troades, Act II, Chorus ('After death nothing is, and nothing, death')

Copy, headed Seneca Troas.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour.

RoJ 105: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms')

Copy, headed The Disappointment and here beginning Naked she clasp'd me in her longing arms.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

RoJ 554: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress ('Tis not that I am weary grown')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

DoC 72.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')

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First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

RoJ 74: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems ('Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound')

Copy, headed From E.R. to E.M..

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

RoJ 274: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park ('Much wine had passed, with grave discourse')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

RoJ 545: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')

Copy, headed Nestor.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

RoJ 605: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia ('Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat')

Copy, here beginning Madam / If you're deceiv'd 'tis not by my heart.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

RoJ 207: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny ('Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

RoJ 191: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride ('Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells')

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First published, as Epigram upon my Lord All-pride, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

RoJ 187: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song ('I swive as well as others do')

Copy, headed Answer and here beginning I F—k no more than others do.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as Answer beginning I Fuck no more then others doe.

Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song I cannot change as others do (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

RoJ 12: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

RoJ 241: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr ('To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's Answer (Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

RoJ 202: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis ('Against the charms our ballocks have')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

RoJ 564: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')

Copy, headed Nothing and here beginning Nothing thou Elder Brother unto Shade.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

RoJ 483: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')

Copy, headed Ovid...To Love and here beginning Oh Love hou cold art thou to take my part.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

RoJ 438: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('What cruel pains Corinna takes')

Copy, headed To Corinna.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as To Corinna. A Song. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

RoJ 621: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor ('Love bade me hope, and I obeyed')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

RoJ 461: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission ('To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

RoJ 384: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Give me leave to rail at you')

Copy, headed Thirsis.

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning Kindness has resistless Charms) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's Answer to the poem (beginning Nothing adds to love's fond fire), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

RoJ 377: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

RoJ 413: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Phyllis, be gentler, I advise')

Copy, headed To Phillis.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

RoJ 168: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life ('All my past life is mine no more')

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First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

RoJ 448: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('While on those lovely looks I gaze')

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First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

RoJ 91: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall ('How blest was the created state')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

RoJ 407: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song ('Love a woman? You're an ass!')

Copy, headed Love to a Woman.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as Love to a Woman.

SeC 99: Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn')

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First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

DrJ 43.7: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

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A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.